You're going to do. Well, greetings, welcome to the dividing line.

It is Advent Week.

We're coming up on the celebration of Christmas and a lot to get to but I would be

inappropriate if I did not start off a program on the 19th of December with wishing a happy birthday to my two

eldest granddaughters cadence and Clementine who share a birthday which is

pretty amazing it is so much fun to see how close those

two have become over the past number of years and despite the fact that Cadence is you know like two feet

taller than Clementine now and is frighteningly less than two years away from driving.

That's, yeah, yeah,

Rich just responded to that, but yeah, less than two years away from driving that's

uh... sobering very very sobering so a blessed thing blessed

blessed Thanksgiving to them both you go a happy birthday to both to to both

cadence and Clementine looking forward to seeing them again on Christmas Day coming up.

So much to get to today and we would be very, very much remiss if we did not focus our time on the continuing

crisis within Roman Catholicism and the opportunities that that gives to us to speak to key and

important issues that we've been addressing since the late 1980s, to be perfectly honest with you. That's really when I first

began my studies into this area and interactions with with Roman Catholics and the issues really haven't

changed much. I mean obviously Rome has changed a lot since then. You know when John Paul II was Pope, he was

full for a long period of time. There was a period of stability and that has now passed and the past decade of Francis after the sudden and totally unexpected resignation of Benedict, Cardinal Ratzinger,

has... has really shown a light on so much that clearly even many of my reform Baptist brethren have not understood

and really appreciated

why solo scriptura is so important

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